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Congratulations to Naomi Mburu, CERN REU 2016, on her selection as a Rhodes Scholar!

The University of Michigan - CERN Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (UM-CERN REU) provides undergraduate students from around the United States an opportunity to conduct nine weeks of summer research with some of the world's leading physicists at CERN in different research fields. The program is conducted in concert with the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program and is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation. Every year the program runs from the beginning of June (usually first week) to the beginning of August (usually second week).

Our program has been highly successful in the training of future scientists; the
vast majority of those selected go on to graduate study in physics, mathematics
or engineering. As one example, of the 15 students participating in the 2011 summer
program, all fifteen participants went to graduate schools to pursue further education at
top schools including Berkeley (4), Columbia (2), Cornell (2), Harvard (2), Princeton (2), Stanford (1), UIUC
(2). The 30 students who participated in 2008/2009 have
garnered an impressive number of awards: seven NSF Fellowships, four NSF
honorable mentions, one DOE Fellowship, one IGERT, and one NDSEG. Also over the years several of our students have received the prestigious
Churchill and Marshall Awards. In addition, USA Today recently selected one as
one of the 20 outstanding Academic All-stars in the nation. The NSF recognized
the UM-CERN program as exemplary, featuring it on the Web page of NSF
International Programs for an extended period.

Professor Homer Neal and Professor Jean Krisch initiated the program in 1998 and have run the program from 2001 to 2013 with the help from on-site coordinator Dr. Steve Goldfarb. Professor Junjie Zhu and Professor Emanuel Gull run the program from 2013 to 2016. Professor Myron Campbell and Professor Junjie Zhu are running this program now.